You can't please everyone all the time. We love our favorite authors (that's why they're our favorite authors) but we still have to admit that they aren't infallible. These are our least favorite books by our still-favorite authors.
You may recall that we've reviewed Coraline by Neil Gaiman. I don't hate it, by any means; it's quite good. It's just my least favorite of all the things I've read by him.
It's actually quite surprising how many of his books I haven't read, so this isn't considering all of his work. I haven't read Odd and the Frost Giants, or The Ocean at the End of the Lane, or The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains.
I like this book. But I LOVE the Sandman series, and American Gods and Anansi Boys and Good Omens and Fortunately, the Milk and The Graveyard Book and Don't Panic and The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish and The Wolves in the Walls...
Ok, so I'm cheating a LITTLE bit, because Katherine Patterson isn't actually my favorite author. But I suggested this post with her in mind, because this week, we're reading one of my favorite books. Easily in my top five, Bridge to Terabithia. It's awesome and amazing and I LOVE it.
But Patterson also wrote one of my all time LEAST favorite books.
It's basically a book about a girl where everything goes wrong in her life. Her family falls apart, gets sent different places, she has to pay off debts, on and on.
Which, I guess on its own isn't a terrible idea for a book, but the execution on it is just so POORLY done. The chapters are bogged down, the writing style so lethargic and there is absolutely nothing in it that holds your interest. There's no action or events or anything that make you want to continue reading the book.
I specifically remember my mom reading it to me (because I had to read it for school and I was having the hardest time getting through it) and even my mom couldn't stand to read through it.
So when I had to read Bridge to Terabithia, by the same author, I was stunned at how much I enjoyed it. I could not believe that they were written by the same person.
But Patterson also wrote one of my all time LEAST favorite books.
Which, I guess on its own isn't a terrible idea for a book, but the execution on it is just so POORLY done. The chapters are bogged down, the writing style so lethargic and there is absolutely nothing in it that holds your interest. There's no action or events or anything that make you want to continue reading the book.
I specifically remember my mom reading it to me (because I had to read it for school and I was having the hardest time getting through it) and even my mom couldn't stand to read through it.
So when I had to read Bridge to Terabithia, by the same author, I was stunned at how much I enjoyed it. I could not believe that they were written by the same person.
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